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Major climate change economics study released

wilful — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:16:45 -0800

The draft Garnaut Climate Change Review was released last Friday. This is the most comprehensive look so far at the economic implications of climate change and emissions trading for a developed country (Australia). Essential (but weighty) reading for those interested in the economics of the issue, a useful localisation of Stern (2006). Ross Garnaut is a distinguished economist from the orthodox school. He argues cogently for Australia and the developed world to play their part in reducing emissions, and notes that 450 ppm CO2-e is difficult but achievable. Final Report with full econometric modelling due in September. Scope of an Australian ETS due by christmas. Responses have dominated the weekend media cycle and blogosphere: The Age, evident scepticism on NEWS.com, blogs summary c/- Larvatus Prodeo.

Impermafrost

[expletive deleted] — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:02:52 -0800

"We badly underestimated the degree of damages and the risks of climate change," said Lord Stern in a speech in London yesterday. "All of the links in the chain are on average worse than we thought (pdf) a couple of years ago." NOAA data has revealed that this past march is the 2nd warmest on record, and the warmest on record for both land and the Northern Hemisphere. The most severe and alarming temperature anomaly is in Russia, China and Central Asia, especially East Siberia and the Amur region. Last summer, the East Siberian Sea was the epicenter of the unprecedented Arctic sea ice melt. This year may be little different. Also of significant concern are positive feedbacks from methane released by melting permafrost and possibly clathrate release from the seabed in the same region. The recent fires in Amur Oblast, which was almost 5C warmer than the the 1961-1990 average this March, may also be related to this, and is another example of the kind of positive feedbacks many climate scientists (and Lord Stern) are concerned about.

F-Worded on the Radio

wendell — Fri, 05 Mar 2004 09:07:01 -0800

Screw Howard Stern. But Save Sandra Tsing Loh!
The radio culture wars have claimed an unlikely victim, and an unlikely victimizer (America's favorite NPR station, KCRW).

Cleland, Schulz and Stern

homunculus — Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:06:43 -0800

Three great interviews in Salon: Former Senator and Vietnam veteran Max Cleland on the stonewalling of the 9/11 commission and the situation in Iraq, author Jessica Stern (previously discussed here) on the recent bombings in Istanbul and Riyadh, and executive director of Amnesty International USA William Schulz on why the left must confront terror with the same zeal that it battles Bush, or risk irrelevance.

trioperative — Thu, 05 Sep 2002 09:31:58 -0800

Howard Stern says Opie & Anthony got what they deserved.

ttrendel — Sun, 23 Sep 2001 21:48:04 -0800

Extraordinary violinist Isaac Stern dead at age 81 An abridged biography can be found here. As a casual listener, I mourn his death and hope that the gap this has left in music education can be filled.